Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

323,813	227,476	6,164	431,477	151,873	2,413,957
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	% Change
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+125	+40,781	79.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+65	+19,941	1508.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+48	+31,275	105.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+40	+7,114	35.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+25	+9,569	219.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+23	+34,137	607.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+21	+5,075	52.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+18	+29,780	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+18	+24,145	n.a.
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+16	+1,585	24.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+8,637	104.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+11	+224,450	108.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+10	-5,208	-16.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+10	-10,194	-21.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+3,613	90.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+384	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+9	+4,986	13.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+9	-166	-15.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+4,948	78.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+9	-2,951	-4.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+893	36.0%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+498	31.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+8	-2,340	-9.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+8,278	109.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+3,072	74.0%
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+443	154.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+1,807	155.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+290	50.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+879	56.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+165	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+4	+3,084	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+3	+721	n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+424	28.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+3	+2,004	108.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,043	40.0%
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+397	709.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+806	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+85	84.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+174	122.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+2	-1,329	-6.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+279	775.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+42	n.a.
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+15	n.a.
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	+1	+280	n.a.
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	+1	-177	-52.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	-336	-20.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+640	103.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+84	n.a.
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+15	25.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-117	-14.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-527	-62.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-3,041	-61.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-1,805	-24.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-4,064	-44.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-3	-1,825	-16.0%
	Totals:	+588	+442,758	+66.3%

The population of these 6 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 2,408,576; in 2000 it was 3,554,760. The total population changed 19.7%. The adherent totals for 1980 (676,456) represent 28.1% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,140,803) include 32.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 55 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 55 groups had 668,032 adherents in 1980 and 1,110,790 adherents in 2000, for a change of 66.3%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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